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Display case at the British Optical Association Museum
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph
British Optical Association Museum
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, SW5
1981
photographic paper
overall: 101 mm x 149 mm

Colour photographic print showing a top-down view of a display case exhibiting items from the collection of the British Optical Association Museum, as on view at 10 Knaresborough Place in 1981, showing handwritten museum numbers 1151, 919, 2280, 3, 1067, 2391, 943, 810, 360, 274, 2060, 259, 2273, 2147, 123, 1527, 2183, 1069, 1744, 1852, 801, plus other unnumbered items, a mixture of chatelaine cases, magnifiers, lorgnettes and folding eyeglasses. Printed on Kodak paper, landscape format, with rounded corners.


1998.465

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